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...such problem is ecumenism-particularly, Methodism's willingness to commit itself to the Blake proposal for one big Protestant superchurch. While the leaders speak favorably about ecumenism, Methodists do not have "a compelling feeling that we must unite churches to overcome the scandal of division," says the Rev. James Wall, editor of the biweekly Christian Advocate...
...years as a preacher and pastor, served a term (1954-57) as president of the National Council of Churches. In U.S. ecumenical circles, he is famed as author of the "Blake proposal" to unite his own Presbyterians with Methodists, Episcopalians and three other denominations in a vast Protestant superchurch...
...denominations discussing the "Blake proposal" to create a new Protestant U.S. superchurch, the one most cautious of involvement is the Meth odist.-The nation's 10,235,000 Methodists, who would be the largest component of the union, are triply divided among an ecumenical avant-garde who see an urgent need for union, a church bureaucracy generally committed to consolidation rather than extension, and a vast majority of pastors and laymen either indifferent to union or dubious about its consequences...
...glowing euphoria ended this year's Consultation on Church Union. It was the fourth annual gathering of theologians and clerical leaders to discuss Eugene Carson Blake's suggested superchurch of the United Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ, who have been joined, since Blake's 1960 proposal, by the Disciples of Christ and Evangelical United Brethren. "A decisive turning point," said Episcopal Bishop Robert Gibson of Virginia. Blake, the United Presbyterians' Stated Clerk, called it "a major step forward...
...Disciples still try to live by Barton Stone's belief that sects should "die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the body of Christ at large." The Disciples are one of six faiths seriously discussing Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal to create a great new superchurch that would be both "catholic and Reformed...